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Send us Fan Mail We continue in our series on being Changemakers in the world and walking the path Jesus laid out for us. Today we looked at the role of Creativity in walking with God. 5,000+ people needed to be fed and there was no obvious supply of food anywhere in site. Jesus finds a creative way to engage the disciples and feed the crowd so that everyone sees God's provision and amazing w...

Send us Fan Mail This Sunday our Ministry student, Wayne Ho stepped up to preach as part of his learning plan. Wayne is in his final year of studying for a Master's of Divinity at Regent College in Vancouver. Hear as he shares a wise word about Empowerment and "making space" for all in the Body of Christ to be able to discover and utilize their God-given gifts to make a difference i...

Send us Fan Mail We continue in Week 2 of a month long series called "The Changemakers" put out by Marcia McFee and Worship Design Studio. Each week we are looking at the Feeding of the 5,000 story from a fresh perspective along with a complimentary text that works with our theme. The learning is to inspire us to question how we too might be Changemakers in our time, place and context, w...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone has giftings of things that we are good at and things we enjoy. Part of our highest call is to discover what those gifts are in ourselves and then to use those gifts for the glory of God. It can be all too easy for us to get puffed up about what we excel at, but the Apostle Paul reminds us that we all have a part and are to serve God and one another in humility. In this,...

Send us Fan Mail This Sunday we explored the text of Moses at the burning bush. The fire that did not consume the bush captured Moses' attention. From there, it was God's command that captured Moses' heart and great purpose. To come before the ruler of Egypt (the superpower of the time) and demand that the ruler let the people go whom they are using and profiting off of, is a huge a...

Send us Fan Mail We begin a month (September, 2026) long sermon series from Worship Design Studio by Marcia McFee called, "Changemakers." Each week we will hear the "Feeding of the 5,000" story from Mark's Gospel along with a complimentary text which demonstrates the virtue God is calling us to, to be more like Jesus and enact real change in the world. This week the theme...

Send us Fan Mail  **Volume may be louder than usual as it was outdoors in a park and Lauren projected her voice louder than usual** 09 Aug 2026 Worship & Picnic in the Park with our friends from Gilmore Park United Church. Lectionary Gospel reading this week is the story of Jesus walking on water.  Music: More Voices Hymnal Song #90, "Don't Be Afraid". Words: John L. Bell and Gr...

Send us Fan Mail This Sunday Rev. Lauren was invited to guest preach at another church so many thanks to retired United Church Clergy and friend of South Arm, Rev. Sally McShane for leading worship and preaching this day! 

Send us Fan Mail Rev. Lauren is back and before we enter today's scripture of Jacob wrestling with a man overnight, Lauren helps us remember the full context of Jacob's story to this point; a story full of complicated family dynamics that shows how we all contend with God and people in our ongoing work of being the very people of God. In our great days, our everyday ordinary days and our...

Send us Fan Mail While Rev. Lauren was away on vacation one of our great church leadership Olwen Walker offered to step in and lead service. Drawing inspiration from Ben Cremer's 30-Day Devotional, "Following Jesus in a World Obsessed with Empires," Olwen shares what it means to be a community of people aiming to follow in Christ's Word and Way in our time and place. Scripture...

Send us Fan Mail 12 July 2026 Service lead by Rev. Jay Olson

Send us Fan Mail In this praise Psalm of David we look at what the verses tell us about who God is, what God does and how we are compelled to respond. God is, God does, So we...

Send us Fan Mail Enjoy this full edition of a very special service honouring the stories and living history of our church. South Arm began in 1906. That's a lot of great history, ministers and families who have worshipped and served here! Many of our current members have been here over 40+ years. They carry important stories and memories of the church across the ages that we don't want t...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus calls the 12 together and empowers them with his authority to go out and do the ministry he himself had done: proclaim good news, heal the sick, cast out demons, make lepers well and raise the dead. They are to go from place to place where God directs. Some households will welcome them and extend hospitality, some will run them out of town. In all, God is with them and they...

Send us Fan Mail In their old age, well past the natural child-bearing years, word comes to Abraham that his wife Sarah will give birth to their first child. In the natural this is preposterous for a senior well beyond menopause and child-bearing years to imagine (which is why she laughed), but for God... anything is possible! And what God says will happen, comes to pass. Not always in our time or...

Send us Fan Mail This year South Arm United Church is engaged in a Visioning process to seek God's guidance on whom we are called to be and how we might better open our doors to serve our neighbours (and the world). As part of that visioning we want to honour the past, taking the best of who we are into the future. Acknowledging the deep roots and living history of the church that formed who...

Send us Fan Mail This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit to the followers of Jesus. Pentecost (meaning "50" is 50 days from Passover). And Pentecost happens under very specific circumstances. People pilgrimaged to Jerusalem from all across the Roman Empire for the Festival of Weeks (commemorating the wheat harvest and the giving of the Law to Moses on Mt. Sin...

Send us Fan Mail Today we get to hear Jesus offer a prayer to the One he called Father. This prayer from the heart asks that we may be one in unity with God and God's call on our lives, as the Trinity is in their own, 3-in-1 relationship.   

Send us Fan Mail Last week we looked at the passage immediately before this one. Jesus had shared with his followers 2 central teachings: (1) that to see Jesus is to see the One he called Father and (2) that the way to where he is going is to follow him. He is the Way. We may want the coordinates but Jesus instead offers an invitation - follow me.  Today we pick up in the next verses of John where...

Send us Fan Mail I am glad to live in a time when we have Google Maps. That technology which helps us get places, able to speak directions to us and knowing up-to-date delays and the best route is quite incredible. But when The Way is with you, you do not need a map. In the lectionary Gospel passage for today Thomas asks Jesus, "We do not know where you are going so how can we know the way?&q...

Send us Fan Mail The church is a different kind of community from many in the world. Where else but around Jesus do we find people of all different languages, nations, identities, ages, socioeconomic statuses etc gathering in one place with someone so major in common? Society often divides us up into neat and not so neat identities and categories. The church breaks down all that. The church is a w...

Send us Fan Mail This recording is from the Sunday after Easter and Reverend Lauren was away. A wonderful retired United Church Minister, Rev. Brian Thorpe filled in. Enjoy this message! 

Send us Fan Mail We see with more than just our eyes. Our heart, our ears, our sense of smell and touch all play a part in how we come to really see people and know they truly are. On the road to Emmaus, 2 disciples are walking when suddenly Jesus joins them post-resurrection. But the fail to recognize just Who is walking with them. He unpacks scripture pointing to himself, reminding these discipl...

Send us Fan Mail Good Friday. Today we follow Jesus and his journey to the Cross and look at how our inclinations as people and as a society lean towards violence, while Jesus Way is the Way of Peace and Forgiveness - even to his accusers! 

Send us Fan Mail It's Easter Sunday and He is Risen! Celebrate Easter Sunday and Communion/Eucharist with us as we mark that Jesus arose in the world and conquered the powers of sin and the grave/death. And, Jesus Way is still alive in the world today - through us.  In the art of Improvisation acting, performers are invited to jump into an unfolding story someone else began by agreeing with w...